Ahrgau

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The Ahrgau (also Argau) was a medieval Franconian county that stretched along the Ahr in what is now northern Rhineland-Palatinate , but also - especially after the dissolution of the Odangau  - reached up to the gates of Bonn (the Kottenforst still belonged to the Ahrgau).

The Ahrgau was mentioned in documents under the names “Arisco” (880), “pagus Aroensis” (882), “Argowe” (1064) and “Archgouwe” (1065).

territory

The Ahrgau belonged to Ripuarien in Lower Lorraine and to the district of the Archdiocese of Cologne , which had an "Ahrdekanat" (Decanatus Areuensis) named after him.

In the south, the Ahrgau bordered the Mayenfeldgau on the line from Rheineck up the Vinxtbach to the Hohen Acht ; in the west on the Eifel and Zülpichgau along the Adenaubachs to Ahr , the Vischbach that Sürsch and Swist along; in the north to the Bonngau ; in the east the Rhine separated the Ahrgau from the Auelgau .

Counts

The counts in the Ahrgau mentioned in a document were:

  • Sigbod, also Sybodo, 930, founder of the Steinfeld Monastery
  • Sicco, 1064
  • Pertold, also Bertoldus, 1065
  • Sicco, 1074

The counts of the Ahrgau are considered the ancestors of the counts of Are .

Count Sicco, mentioned in 1074, is believed to have been the father of Count Dietrich I of Are .

literature

  • Historical Atlas of the Rhineland, 7th delivery, IV.9: The medieval Gaue, 2000, 1 map sheet, 1 booklet, edited by Thomas Bauer, ISBN 3-7927-1818-9 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Heinrich Beyer : Document book on the history of the Middle Rhine territories, now forming the Prussian administrative districts of Coblenz and Trier , Volume 2, Coblenz: Hölscher, 1865, page XVIII ( dilibri Rheinland-Pfalz )
  2. ^ A b Johann Friedrich Schannat : Eiflia illustrata or geographical and historical description of the Eifel , Volume 1, 1824, p. 131 ff ( Google Books )
  3. ↑ Werner Bornheim: On the older history of the Counts of Ahre in "Archive for Middle Rhine Church History", Society for Middle Rhine Church History, 1954, p. 130 ( dilibri Rheinland-Pfalz )